St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-12
SOUTH ST. PAUL.
More Than Eleven Hundred Thou
sand Dollars Have Been Invested
in RuiIdinDS

in Buildings.
But the largest investment in any of
the suburbs has been made in South st.
Paul, or rather that part of South st.
Paul known as the Union stock yards.
Here, in the buildings and plant of the
stock yards alone, has been invested
the immense sum S1,000,000 during the
year. Forty, acres of land have been
covered with buildings and sheds de-
manded by the business, and over thirty
miles of side track has been graded and
is now ready for use. This gives the
company railroad facilities unequaled
in the United States, and this
advantage coupled with the many i'm
prOvementS in their entire plant, is eX-
pected to place the st. Paul Union
Stock yards ahead of all others. The
greater part OF the work Oh the follow
ing buildings has been done this year:
The pork killing house, 162x50 feet,
four stories high, and built of brick: a
brick engine room, 67X40, one story
high; smoke house, three stories high,
135x5O. and built Of brick; three-story
brick blood room, I9X22; a brick refin-
cry, four stories high, 244xS1; another
brick engine room, 24x6O; a fOurstOry
fertilizer house, 97x49; beef
house, 200y100 feet, four stories
high and built of brick; brick fertilizer
house No.2, 97Xl9: lard refinery. four
stories in height, built of brick, 50X125;
another brick engine house, 50X50, and
one story high: two coal houses, built
of brick and 20XG6: two ice houses, each
162Nl51 ard forty feet high, with an en-
gine room for each house, and, finally,
1s,s III IL,
lots. blocks and sections like an ordinary
city. Aid covering considerably more
gr0uid than nany a booming town.
The
BtliDING OPERATIONS
at this point. however, have not been
confined 10 the stock yards alone, some
thing orcc $1i9,G0O havingbeen expended
in residences, hotels and business
blocks. The ;nnst prominent building
outside the yards is the stock exchange
building, built Of brick and stone and
finished in hardwood, at a cost of some
thing over S!5,Gn, of which $4,000 has
been expended during the past year.
Then the Manufacturer block, erected at
Il cost of Sl0, GOO, and Tie Commercial hO-
tel, casting $500, are worthy of notice.
Paul Martin, too, comes in for notice,
he having erected no less than eight fine
two-Story dwellings at an average cost
of s., 800. School buildings also come in
for share in the building expenses five
neat brick school houses having been
put up during the summer at an aver
age cost of $4,000. The full list of build
ings and the cost Of each is as follows:
Union Stock Yards Exchange,
4-story stone building (fnishng) $4,000
Mannhemer block. 2-story brick
and stone, Grand ay and Concord. 10000
Alb Wilgus :3-story frame, Com
= mercial n hotel. .................... $500
Paul Martin. eight 2-story frame
dwellings $500 eachl .......... 10000
City Of Soutl, st Paul. FIVE 242 story
brick school houses $4,000 each) $4,000
Various parties, ten small frame
houses {Sl 900 each) .............. 10000
II N Liitell, 2l2-story frame dwell
ing 5;OO
ing ing g......'..-.... ..c.N ~ .............. $500
j Ilicischer, 2-story frame dwell
The Union stock Yards company,
buildings and stock sheds. ...-... ], 100000
Total 81, ,119, 500